Across
- 2. a perspective of criminal justice that identifies the repression of crime as the most important function of the criminal justice system
- 3. a loosely organized collection of agencies police courts and corrections that operate at the local state and federal levels that is charged with protecting the public maintaining order enforcing laws identifying offenders bringing the guilty to justice and treating and punishing convicted persons
- 5. a person against whom a charge is brought in court
- 6. the territory over which a law enforcement agency authority
- 7. a defendants first appearance in court to be informed of the charges advised of his or her rights and to have bail determined
- 8. a verdict of not guilty
Down
- 1. a sum of money that the arrested person pays to guarantee that he or she will appear at future hearings
- 2. the procedures that occur in the criminal justice system from a citizens initial contact with police to his or her potential arrest charging booking prosecution conviction sentencing incarceration and receiving probation to being paroled
- 3. an intentional act or omission to act neither justified nor excused that is in violation of criminal law and punishable by the state
- 4. an institution to hold pretrial detainees and people convicted of less serious crimes
- 5. a perspective of criminal justice that argues that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to ensure fairness under the law
- 9. to accuse of wrongdoing through formal accusations